Re: postgres session termination

On Jan 30, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Rick Schumeyer wrote:

> I’m accessing this via a php web page.  I’m thinking that maybe
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> the best way to do this, other than re-running the query each time,
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> is to put the results into a temporary table.  I think this will work
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> if I never call “disconnect” from the php script.  My question is,
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> when does my Postgres session end?  Is there a timeout?
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>  
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> Of course, if this is a really bad way to do this, I’m willing to
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> learn a better way!


I think there are much better ways to do this. If the result set is
large, the user could be waiting a very long time. Two possibilities
are (1) use a cursor or (2) use limit and offset in your select
statement grab only the rows you need to display.

I think phpPgAdmin (http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/) uses option 2.
You could download the source and see how they implement the table
browser.

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
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